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Which international bridge spanning Niagara Gorge is closest to Niagara Falls?

gorge

[gawrj] / gɔrdʒ /




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From June until mid October, the bears gorge on food, including salmon caught with their jaws or paws.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Using a rope system, a volunteer was lowered to the ledge to reach the dog before she was "hauled back up the gorge where she was reunited with her owners".

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

It ended up in a narrow gorge south of the confluence of two rivers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Isak Andic died in late 2024 after falling more than 300 feet into a gorge while out trekking with his son Jonathan in the Montserrat mountain range near Barcelona.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

I forget my phone when Mom drags me out of the house to go for a hike along the gorge.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

It offers quiet roads along coastlines and river gorges and into mountains, among rice paddies and through towns with tiled roofs where villagers pride themselves on their Shikoku hospitality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

"The gorges are very deep and steep, so that's the difficulty."

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Beside him, a younger woman was planning to embark on a long taxi drive with him, across steep mountain passes and narrow gorges, first to Armenia's capital, Yerevan, and then on to nearby Georgia.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025

Elisabeth, resentful, gorges on whatever fatty food she can find.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025

Narrow trails rising above deep gorges now forced the company to go in single file.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

January tends to come with a slowdown in spending after consumers have gorged on shopping for the holidays.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

Instead, the American and British public gorged on the sensationalism because that was the supposedly “official” record.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2025

They bonded further over an offseason trip to Tokyo, where they gorged on sushi and wagyu beef.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2024

On a flat pitch under warm sun and against an inexperienced attack lacking any sort of cutting edge, England's batters gorged themselves.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2023

Jemmy gorged himself, anxious to be off and not certain when he would eat again.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

Lagarde found her way in the end, joining a local synchronized swimming team, gorging on American peanut butter and working on her English.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

The bears of Katmai spend summer and early autumn gorging themselves on salmon as they look to bulk up ahead of a long winter of hibernation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

The young sharks were gorging themselves on the hated stingrays.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

The solution, in other words, lies somewhere between culling cows in Niger and gorging ourselves on factory-farmed flesh.

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2023

Her lips resemble two leeches puffed up from gorging on blood.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton


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